Anime number formatting for Specials: Shorts, Openings and Endings

[Romtromon]

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I:/Anime/{primaryTitle.replace(': ',' - ')} [{n.findMatch(group) ? null : group}] ({source} {vf} {vc} {ac})/{primaryTitle.replaceAll(/(?<=\w)[\w\s]/, '').replace(': ', '-')} {absolute.pad(2)} - {t.replace(': ', ' - ')}

So this is my current naming scheme for anime from anidb and I've come across a problem, as seen in the picture below the renamed file won't have an episode number. I would like to get the anidb numbering format for specials (S1, S2, etc.) on these files. I would also like to use the numbering scheme for openings and endings when renaming those, how would I accomplish this? Thanks in advance for any help.

[rednoah]

Automatic matching won't work for those kinds of files. At best FileBot will interpret S1 as Season 1 and/or Episode 1.

1. Go to Episodes panel and select Special 1 to 6
2. Right-Click ➔ Send To ➔ Rename (or use drag-n-drop)
3. Drop files into Original Files and align if necessary

See Getting Started, Page 2:
http://www.filebot.net/getting-started/

As for formatting, FileBot has episode and special numbers. It doesn't know about any of the special AniDB tags/numbers like S1, OP1, ED2a, etc. You might be able to come up with some of that via {special} and {t}.

e.g.

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{any{e.pad(2)}{"Special $special"}}

You will see more examples for special handling for special episodes in the examples:

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{episode.special ? 'Special' : 'Season '+s}

[Romtromon]

Thanks for the help and quick replies as usual! Also, I can't seem to find the OPs and EDs on the episode finder so is it not possible for me to rename them?

And would you be so kind as to explain that example code to me? I'd like to know what each part of it does please:

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{any{e}{'S'+special}.pad(2)}

[rednoah]

Thanks for the help and quick replies as usual! Also, I can't seem to find the OPs and EDs on the episode finder so is it not possible for me to rename them?

Pretty much. FileBot ignores those right away so they can't interfere with matching.

The any function is documented here: viewtopic.php?f=5&t=1895